Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple
Taoist temple where worshippers shake bamboo fortune sticks before a shepherd turned immortal deity.
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This guide to Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple tells the fourth-century legend of Huang Chuping, a teenage shepherd who vanished onto a mountain for forty years and returned able to turn stones into sheep. It follows how his image traveled from Guangdong to a Wan Chai apartment in 1915, then to this hillside chosen for its feng shui, and how the temple came to open fully in 1956. Watch the courtyard as worshippers shake bamboo cylinders full of numbered sticks.
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